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what is called Minister ' s money , a rate levied upon the houses in towns and cities , and which has been calculated at 25 , 000 / . per annum . The fees ought to tell for something . Marriages , baptisms , and burials are expensive things ail over Christendom . Small a minority as is the established sect , probably its priests reap not less than 200 , 000 £ . per annum from this source . All these remain , and are untouched . There will be very pretty pickings yet . Ten bishops and two archbishops , with 70 , 000 / . per annum amongst them ; and 1401 benefieed clergymen , whose livings are by their own report worth about 600 , 000 £ . per annum , with even such increase of the dividers of the spoil as the abolition of pluralities may occasion , make no bad show for a Reformed Church , which has only a half million of souls under its care . The Reformers are evidently no ' Destructives / However , let us be thankful for what we can get . The abolition of the Vestry Cess is a boon that will be felt far beyond the proportion of its actual amount . Allowing bishops' tenants to purchase the permanency of their leases , will also do good immeasurably superior to the realization of a
disposable sum of two or three millions . It will improve the condition of the country . It is like a miraculous addition of fertility to the soil . It is worth all the Curfews and Courts Martial in the world . But of these we will say nothing now , except to deplore the fatuity which , after such ample experience , could dream of appeasing the great famine-scramble by means so hateful in their nature , so horrible in their results , and go utterly ineffective for their professed object .
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So perfect is thy form , Thou art the wide world ' s wonder ; All hearts towards thee warm , All minds upon thee ponder ! Who looks upon thy face Is plunged in bondage deep ; All memory ' s thoughts to chase , And know no dreamless sleep . To look on thy soft cheek , And nostril ' s chiselled line , Recalls the forms antique , When sculpture was divine . And those large bright black eyes That mock descriptions skill , Bid lofty thoughts arise , Bid patriot passion thrill !
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Churofi Reform . 211
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/67/
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